Municipal waste flue gas was previously found to deactivate the Pt-based CO oxidation catalyst severely.
In the specific case studied, siloxanes were found to cause the deactivation.
An on-site method for complete regeneration of the catalyst activity was found without shutdown of the flue gas stream, i.e. by in situ treatment of the Pt-catalyst by reductive H2-gas.
However, introduction of H2 gas in the gas stream could also affect other units in the tail pipe gas cleaning system.
Of special interest here, is the effect of hydrogen gas on the performance of the deNOx + SCR catalytic process, i.e. the reaction 4NO + 4NH3 + O2 ->4N2 + 6H2O.